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RACE RETRO, 23-25 MARCH 2007, STONELEIGH PARK
01 February 2007 - Historic Motorsport Show
MEET THE STARS OF MOTORCYCLING, RALLYING, & RACING
Michele Mouton, one of the most successful and
best-known female rally drivers of all time, will
open Race Retro, the International Historic
Motorsport Show, on Saturday 24 March 2007 -
and will then drive her famous 1985 Pikes Peak
Hillclimb-winning 500bhp Audi S1 Sport quattro
on the rally demonstration stage. Audi team legend Mouton is among many stars
of rallying, racing and motorcycling who will
meet visitors, sign autographs and - in some
cases - even take part in the live events at the
Show. Other stars include: Friday 23 March 2007: The Show will be opened
by three heroes of the motorcycle world: Jim
Redman, Phil Read and Frank Perris, who were
in fierce competition in the 250cc World
Championship throughout the 1960s. Redman,
riding for Honda, secured the 250 World
Championship in 1963. Read, riding for Yamaha,
took the 250 World title the following year and
again in 1965 and 1968. Meanwhile, the Suzuki
works team was led by Frank Perris, who -
despite the fact that Suzuki''s 250 was not as
well-developed as the rival Honda and Yamaha
machines - kept the pressure on the dominant
Read/Redman duo throughout that golden era.
Race Retro will see the three team leaders
reunited with each other, and with the
motorcycles which they rode in their heyday. Saturday 24 March 2007: Opening the Show on
Saturday is one of the best female rally drivers of
all time, and certainly a match for her illustrious
Audi team-mates Hannu Mikkola, Walter Rohrl
and Stig Blomqvist. Highlights of Michele Mouton''s
career include the 1981 Sanremo Rally, when -
with co-driver Fabrizia Pons - she took the first
outright WRC win for the Audi team, for the
quattro, for a four-wheel drive car, and for a
female driver! In 1982, Mouton achieved outright
WRC wins in Portugal, Greece (Acropolis Rally)
and Brazil. At Pikes Peak in 1985, Mouton took
the works Audi S1 to victory, ascending the
hillclimb''s 19.96km, 157-bend gravel road in just
11min 25.39sec. Now, 22 years after that
momentous day, she will be re-united with her
500bhp Audi S1 on the Race Retro live rally stage. Sunday 25 March 2007: Opening the Show on
Sunday are Richard Attwood and Vic Elford, two
legends of motor racing who were team-mates at
Le Mans in 1969, sharing a Porsche 917 in the
car''s first 24-hour race. Elford and Attwood led
much of that memorable event, before they were
forced to retire. ''I wouldn''t have been driving if
Vic hadn''t put my name forward,'' Attwood once
said, ''something I only discovered a few years
ago. I''ll never forgive him!'' Attwood went on to
take Porsche''s first ever outright Le Mans win the
following year, while Elford''s career saw him win
the 1968 Monte Carlo Rally, the Daytona 24 Hours,
the Targa Florio and the Nurburgring 1000Km. Access to the live action on the Saturday and
Sunday of Race Retro is free to all ticket-holders,
along with 450 exhibition stands covering 70
years of historic motorsport on both two wheels
and four -- on road, off road and on track. Race Retro 2007 runs from 23-25 March at its
usual venue of Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry.
Advance one-day tickets cost £18 (two-day tickets
are £32). See www.historicmotorsportshow.com
or call the ticket hotline on 08701 262121.
www.historicmotorsportshow.com
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